Apparatus for tempering and preparing clay for making brick



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W. W. WINN. APPARATUS FOR TEM-PERING AND PREPARNG CLAY FOR MAKING BRICK. N0. 287.074. Patented 001'.. 23, 1883.'

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XVALTER XV. XVINN, OF TROY, NEXV YORK.

APPARATUS FOR TEMPERING AND PREPARING CLAY FOR MAKING BRICK.

LPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-N0. 287,074,dated October 23, 1883.

Application filed March 7, 1883. (No model.) l

more fully described, in the combination, with a tank or tub adapted to hold the clay, and constructed with a delivery-opening at the bottom, of a central vertical shaft having verti- ,cal bearings at the bottom and the top of the` tub, and provided with an upper cog-wheel to receive and a low-er cog-wheel to transmit motion, four auxiliary vertical shafts arranged between the central shaft and the tub, which are provided with vertical bearings in the bottom and at the top of the tub, and constructed with cog-wheels on their upper ends that gear into the lower cog-wheel on the central shaft, with the latter and the auxiliary mixing-shafts provided with blades or arms that vmove in alternating horizontal planes of revolution on the shafts, and an offset shaft having bracketbearings attached to the tub, an intermediately-plaeed cog-wheel adapted to receive motion from one of the wheelsof one of the auxiliary mixing-shafts, and a cog-wheel upon the offset shaft adapted to transmit power 'therefrom to a machine to mold the clay into brick.

In the accompanying two sheets of drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are shown three figures illustrating my invention, and in all of which the same designation of parts by letter-reference. is used.

Of these drawings, Figure l shows a side elevation-of the apparatus, with a dotted line indicating the position, relatively, of the central and auxiliary mixing-shafts within the tub. Fig. 2 represents in a plan view the tops of the shafts and tub, and the cog-wheels on the upper ends of the shafts arranged within the tub; also the shaft and gear-wheel arranged in offset brackets, and also the shaft and wheel intermediately placed'to connect the wheel on the offset shaft with that on one of the auxiliary mixing-shafts. Fig. 3 shows la transverse section taken on the line ai x of Fig. 1.

The several parts of the mechanism are designated by letter-reference' and their operation explained as follows:

The letter 'l indicates the tub, and D a delivery-opening formed at the side and bottom -of the latter, said opening being constructed with the sliding door d2.

Theletter S designates the central shaft, provided with the upper cog-wheel, XV, for receiving motion, and the lower wheel, XX, for transmitting motion. 1

The letters S2 S S* S5 indicate the auxiliary mixing-shafts, which are arranged within the tub between the `central mixing-shaft and the tub, and upon the upper endsy of each of which there is arranged one of the cog-wheels YV3 XV'L XW XV, all of which are constructed to gear into the central wheel, W2, on the shaft S. All of these shafts, including the central one, have bearings in the tub at the bottom, and at thetop in the cross-braces M M, arranged within the tub, and they are all constructed with the radially-arranged horizontal mixing blades or bars a, which are placed on the shafts so as to ,move in differing longitudinal planes.

rIhe letters B and BIZ designate two brackets, attached to the tub sides, and A an offset structed with vertical bearings in the bracket B', and the upper bracket, O, also attached to said tub; and E indicates a cog-wheel on the shaft J, connecting the gear-wheel G with the wheel XV* on the auxiliary shaft S4. As thus constructed, with power applied to the wheel XV on the central shaft, all the other shafts are actuated, and when clay is fed into the tub through the openings O" it is thoroughly triturated by the arms on the shafts within the tub, and is discharged, when this operation is completed, through the opening cl2.

I ani well aware that devices of this kind have been constructed with one central shaft with'mixing-blades; but by my improvement four new centers of motion, having opposite revolution to that of the center shaft, have IOS arranged eentral aetuatingshaft, eircu1nferential auxiliary shafts, and gear-Wheel E, j ournaled in brackets, as described, of the brackets B B2, iiXed to the sides of the tank, and shaft A, havingthe gear-Wheels G and G2, substa11- tially as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at the City of Troy this 2d day 0f 2c Miu-eh, 1883.

WALTER WILLrAMs WIEN.

Vitnesses:

STANLEY M. HOLDEN, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

